Base-Breaking Character: Gex from the livestreams. Some find him rather funny, the rest find him painfully obnoxious. Especially after the n-word incident. It wouldn't be so bad if Jon didn't have him on co-commentary almost every single stream.

Ear Worm: The muzak Jon uses to accompany his fortune cookie/straw poll and Intermission cards in his livestreams.

Ensemble Darkhorse: Laura from the Mario Kart Wii videos is becoming very popular with viewers; a lot of people really like the sound of her voice.

Some people from Jon's streams, such as DanTheEnigma, are well-liked in the chat due to gaming skill (or lack thereof) and frequently join Jon in games and calls.

From his Bomberman: Act Zero: Dan (See above), Jewker, A Girlbreast, and Draw. The last of these is worth mention, as Draw isn't a physical player, but the actual condition of everyone else losing, resulting in a tie.

His picture from when he was 18 has attributed to this trope. For which Jon is forever haunted.

Sometime around the start of 2018, Jon let a friend take a picture of him smiling while holding two hotdogs at a hockey game. He has since grown to hate this decision, as it is arguably even MORE popular then his 18-year-old picture.

Friendly Fandoms: There seems to be a pretty good overlap between Jon fans and Vinesauce fans, particularly fans of Vinny and Joel, due to Jon's commentary style and tastes being very Vinesauce-esque (right down to him sharing Joel's love of Fist of the North Star, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and dumb, over-the-top shit in general) and due to Jon admitting to enjoying their work. The overlap appears to be more visible on Jon's channel than on Vinny's or Joel's, though.

Good Bad Bugs: Jon has a tendency to make games he plays on both his stream and his channel to glitch on him in hilarious ways. It happens so often and such ridiculous ways that it's hard to keep track of them all.

The Superman 64 let's play is based almost completely around breaking the game into itty bitty glitch pieces. Some are intentional, some are not, but it's all endlessly amusing.

His crowning achievement is widely considered the time he broke Wheel of Fortune of all things by causing the countdown timer to count up.

Growing the Beard: Jon has gone through the trope at least twice in his LP career. In the beginning, Jon did lets plays of Nintendo Hard games by adding his own snark and witty commentary. It wasn't until Jon started to do lets plays of various Super Mario World ROM hacks (including Kaizo Mario) that his popularity soared while many memes from Jon were born. After getting tired of doing nothing but ROM hacks, Jon quit them altogether and focused on playing games he likes while giving the viewers an educational background behind the games.

Combined with Heartwarming in Hindsight, kind of: Jon's astonished joy in the first Bomberman: Act Zero stream when after some minutes prodding his chat for volunteers, 'actually managed to get a full room' of 8 people to play the notoriously unpopular game. A few weeks later, he had popularised the game on Twitch to the point that any game room he starts fills up in a second or two.

Jon starts one of his 2015 Fortune Cookie streams with an updated yet still incomplete version of Jumpjet Rex. One of the updates is an actual plot snippet, revealing that the dinosaursare trying to killthe ice age.

Way back in the first part of the Battletoads four-player race, when it was mentioned that Jon may have to carry the commentary himself as everyone else was getting to Turbo Tunnel, Jon replied "I don't want to talk to myself! That's weird!" Cue more recent videos, where a relatively frequent occurrence is Jon talking to "Future Jon" and vice versa.

He uses the 'tada!' sound effect from Windows 95 in his Resident Evil 5 collab for things such as his epic rescue of SuperJeenius ("FOOOOOOTBAAAAALLL!") and when the two of them don't forget or miss anything in a level that he would have to recap later.

Also, his laughter is pretty nice to listen to.

In his livestreams, he uses a clip of Albert Wesker irately saying "YOU WILL GIVE ME AN EGG!" and injects it randomly into the stream at the request of the chat commentators, especially when he gets a new subscriber.

He's complained about "MOVE FASTER POKEY" many, many times. He only ever said it once, not that you'd know, given its ubiquity (including here on TV Tropes). He even wrote this in his guest bio for one Fan Convention:

"One day, Jon recorded a video of himself playing a video game and yelled at a cartoon cactus to move faster in it. He's been paying for that decision ever since."

Ironically, in his early romhack videos, he quotes "100 SECONDS?!" as the line everyone remembers from Kaizo; "MOVE FASTER POKEY" didn't really take off until people started doing Sparta remixes.

"DEATH WATER" and "NOW I'LL SHOW YOU" are a bit more deserving of their status; even though they each appeared in just one video, Jon repeated them over and over again.

He even lampooned "DEATH WATER" himself with "CHERRY KOOL-AID".

His Super Mario TKO LP, where he encouraged his viewers to play along, record, and upload their own videos. This resulted in a surge of terrible LP videos, and was probably the key factor in the decision to Retsupurae him — note that their primary criticism is his Follow the Leader status.

He's since co-commented on a few Wrongpuraes, and commented on the video riffing him, taking it in good taste.

Slowbeef seems determined to make the Notte Luminosa incident one of these; though he was very sympathetic about it on the Retsupurae podcast, he's still cracking jokes every time he thinks of it in the videos Jon guests in.

"... but it's still anyone's game!" became one after its overuse in Bomberman: Act Zero.

His Superman 64 LP is probably the crowning example. It was absolutely plagued by issues, technical or otherwise, that caused notoriously long delays and stretched the LP out across the better part of a decade. As a result, Jon's viewers hounded him over it to such a relentless degree that any mention of it, even as a joke, became a massive Berserk Button for him. He even acknowledged during a March 2017 stream that, whether he actually finished the LP or not, people would never let it go.

Nightmare Fuel: In one of Jon's update videos, Jon reveals one of the reasons he's been so inactive was because when he needed to purchase a new Capture Card, the person who sold it to him died.

This is his opinion of Superman 64, in the sense that the game is so poorly designed and programmed that it actually becomes fun to discover different ways to break it.

He also considers Bomberman: Act Zero pretty fun if you can get people to play it with you online.

Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: Happened unintentionally with an incident when Jon accidentally ended his June 24, 2017 Stream after cutting a game short due to excessive backseaters; the period of time between him cutting off the stream and going live again to explain what happened was filled with people in chat pointing out exactly how harmful backseat gaming is to the streamer and the viewers, how it basically equates to bullying, and how even a small amount of backseaters are enough to set someone off. Then, after Jon comes back live and performs the raid he intended to do, all seems to be forgiven, which leads one chat user to make a post after the stream calling out everyone for seemingly forgetting everything that had happened with the backseaters tonight, and suggests that those people rethink their life and their priorities.

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